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leaves are greener now, for I am being properly watered at last!
Interests
Prime numbers Epic poetry/old books/Classics history of science, philosophy, and religion Linguistics Geometry Linux Machining/ light manufacture
Education
Naval Nuclear Power Program years of fractured community college Intensive self directed study/ whimsical diletantery
Favorite Books
Gödel, Escher, Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid Metamorphoses by Ovid Tao te Ching Machinery's Handbook, 27th ed.
Recently Read
Ovid's Metamorphoses(again. this time Latin and English side by side. yes I am obsessed with this book) The Information by James Gleick(too easy done in 2 days) Road to Reality by Roger Penrose(kicking my butt and making me wish for college! not close to finished) Complete Woodcuts of Albrecht Durer Science of Mechanics by Ernst Mach Paradise Lost by Milton The Closing of the American Mind by Allen Bloom(ouch. I'm partly correct it seems) Animal Farm by Orwell Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Favorite Music
Jack White can't seem to make music I don't like Symptom of the Universe by Black Sabbath is a personal fave Child of the Moon by the Rolling Stones Tomorrow Never Knows by the Beatles True Blue by Bright Eyes (sounds like Shel Silverstien wrote it!) Beethoven's 9th (lovely lovely ludwig van) oh so many others
Listening Now
computer humming, trees rustling, keys cliktyclacking
Favorite Movies
Seven Samurai (small war tactics honestly depicted. very unAmerican!) Time Bandits City of Lost Children Fight Club Brazil Ronin Wizard of Oz
many others
Watched Recently
Agora. A tale of Hypatia, and the end of Alexandria. Not widely promoted in the US.
Favorite Words
Enantiodromia - the process of a thing becoming it's own opposite (not sure its real word, but it should be)
Hobbies
Machining (yes, I bring my work home with me) Prime Numbers bOING bOING! a weblog I read making my computers unusable by others with Linux Automating machine tools with EMC2(ought to be a job)
Trivia
De Re Metallica by Agricola was the standard mining text until about 1800. The best English translation was done by President Herbert Hoover and his wife. I want a copy real bad.
